Citation

Zhao Y, Rosala GF, Campean IF, Day AJ. Int. J. Crashworthiness 2010; 15(2): 143-150.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13588260903094392

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The paper presents a response surface approach to modelling car-pedestrian impact events and a multi-objective optimisation technique aimed at finding a front-end car geometry that minimises the injury outcome. The results of the study, involving a parametric front car model and four anthropometric-group pedestrian models, demonstrate the ability of RBF-based response surface models to adequately describe car-pedestrian impacts despite the high nonlinearity of such events. Moreover, the response surface models have been successfully used to find front-end car geometry that minimises injury levels across all four anthropometric groups.